Mary Clavin of Westmeath or West Meath, Ireland

Re: Mary Clavin of Westmeath or West Meath, Ireland

I’m not a descendant, but located information about your Daly and Clavin ancestors. I’m not sure if you have located these records.

For example, I found the baptism indexes for five children of Laurence Daly and Mary Clavin at the Irish Family History Foundation website for County Westmeath, showing these children were baptized in the Castletown Geoghan Catholic Church between 1837 and 1846. The names and years of baptisms for the children are: Maragret (1837); Christian (1838); Margaret (1841); Rose (1843); and Patrick (1846).

Laurence and Mary may have had more than five children, but these are the only ones I could uncover at the IFHF. One of these baptisms is for a Patrick Daly, though his baptism, according to the index, took place in 1846, rather than in 1855. It’s possible this Patrick died as a child, and that Laurence and Mary had another child they named Patrick in 1855, though I didn’t find baptism indexes for any of Laurence and Mary’s children in the 1850s.

Before accessing indexes at any of the IFHF member counties, you’ll need to register with the website. You’ll be able to access indexes that I uncovered for free, but will have to purchase credits to obtain the baptism transcriptions. The transcriptions will be sent to your computer after you purchase the credits. You purchase credits by credit card.

You’ll notice in the first baptism index below for the year 1837, that the child’s first name is spelled Maragret, rather than Margaret. If you do not spell her name in this alternate manner, the IFHF search engine will not produce any results. You’ll also see an index for a second child named Margaret, baptized in 1841. Her name is spelled the correct way. Being that Laurence and Mary named two children Margaret means the first-born child by that name had died young.

You can order the five baptism transcriptions individually, or you can order them from one index. To order them from one source, access the index just as you see it below, without including the first names of the children. In place of the first names, use the wild-card symbol %. Also, do not include the years of birth for the children. For the Parish/District select CASTLETOWN-GEOGHAN (RC) from the drop-down box.

If you want all five baptism transcriptions sent to your computer, you’ll have to purchase enough credits in bulk. More information about purchasing credits can be found at the IFHF website.

Next I found the 1870 marriage index for Patrick Daly and Margaret Bannon, and also located the baptism indexes for nine of their children. The marriage and the baptisms all took place in the Castletown Geoghan Catholic Church in Westmeath. The names of the children and their years of baptism are: Mary (1871); Margaret (1873); Bridget (1874); Patrick (1876); Joseph (1877); Christina (1879); Christopher (1881); Laurence (1883); and Margaret (1888).

You’ll notice there are baptisms for two children named Patrick and two children named Margaret. This indicates the first-born Patrick and Margaret had died young.

In the baptism indexes that follow, you’ll see that the first name of Joseph’s mother is listed as Mary. The IFHF search engine did not accept Margaret as her first name. This may have been an error on the part of the parish priest who recorded the baptism, or an error in transcription. The other option is Margaret’s middle name may have been Mary, which was recorded as Mary rather than Margaret in the baptism index for Joseph.

To purchase all nine baptism transcriptions from one index, access the index as you see it below, with the % as a wild card for the first names of the children. Also, do not include Margaret as the first name of the children’s mother, because in the baptism for Joseph, her first name is listed as Mary.

I also found Patrick and Margaret Daly, and their daughter Margaret in the 1911 census of Ireland, still living in Ballynacoska, Castletown, Westmeath. In this census Patrick’s age is listed as 69, while his wife Margaret is 66. Their daughter Margaret is 22.

At the end of the census line for 66 year old Margaret Daly, you’ll see the numbers 40 11 and 6. The 40 stands for the number years Margaret and Patrick had been married as of 2 April 1911 when the census was enumerated. The 11 stands for the number of children they had, while the 6 represents the number of their children still living as of the 1911 census.

As you saw earlier, I only found the baptisms of nine of Patrick and Margaret Daly’s children.

The census, from the National Archives, follows:

1911 Census of Ireland

Residents of a house 5 in Ballynacoska (Castletown, Westmeath)

Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion Birthplace Occupation Literacy Irish Language Marital Status Specified Illnesses Years Married Children Born Children Living

If the above link doesn’t work for you, establish a free account with the LDS, and it should work then.

Next I found an LDS birth index and a copy of the original report of a birth for Jeremiah and Catherine Mary Daly Sullivan’s son, “Jerimiah” Patrick Sullivan, who was born in Chicago on 9 June 1909. His 26 year old father’s birthplace is listed as Bantry, County Cork, while his 24 year old mother’s birthplace is listed as Castletown, Westmeath.

I then found what I believe to be the older Jeremiah Sullivan’s death index and death certificate at the LDS website. The index shows that a Jeremiah L. Sullivan had died in Chicago on 4 February 1909, at the age of 25 years old. His occupation was locomotive fireman. The index also shows that at the time of his death he was living at 6601 Drexel Avenue. He was buried in the Mt. Olive Cemetery on 7 February 1909.

The index below gives his middle initial as L., but if you access a copy of the original death record, and enlarge it, you can see that his middle initial is actually a J.

The death certificate shows that Jeremiah, while working as a fireman on the railroad, died as the result of “shock, injuries, and scalds” he received in a train accident in Chicago. His place of death was St. Luke’s Hospital.

Next I located the LDS marriage index and marriage license for 26 year old James P. Walsh and 27 year old Catherine M. Sullivan, who were married in Chicago on 6 July 1913:

I then found the LDS birth index and copy of the original birth certificate for Patrick and Catherine Walsh’s son, James Patrick Walsh, who was born in Chicago on 27 April 1914. His 25 year old father’s birthplace is listed as Kilkenny, Ireland, while his 28 year old mother’s birthplace is listed as Westmeath, Ireland.

You’ll notice that the birth certificate states that the address of the Walsh family at the time of John Joseph’s birth is listed as 6557 Cottage Grove Street, Chicago. John Joseph’s father’s occupation is listed as “Blacksmith.”

I also found the LDS birth index and copy of the original birth record for Patrick and Catherine’s son Walter Francis Walsh, who was born in Chicago on 24 November 1915:

I couldn’t identify any birth indexes for children of Lawrence Daly and Winifred Gleevey at the LDS website, but I did finds the LDS marriage index for their son, John P. Daly, who married Mary J. Curtin on 22 September 1945, in the Holy Angels Church, Gary, Lake County, Indiana:

Next I located what may be Winifred Daly’s death index at Ancestry.com’s “Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922,” showing that she had died on 3 April 1917 in Bremen, Cook County. At the time of dearth “Winefred” was a 28 year old housewife. Her birthplace was Ireland. She was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery on 6 April 1917:

I then uncovered the LDS birth index and copy of the original birth record for Lawrence and Nellie’s son, Christopher Joseph Daly, who was born in Chicago on 1 May 1921. At the time of Christopher’s birth, Lawrence was 37 years old while Nellie was 31 years old:

In your message to Ancestry.com you noted that Laurence Daly’s brother Christopher J. Daly, had married a Margaret.

I located Christopher’s LDS marriage index and a copy of his original marriage license, showing that he married Margaret Boyle in Chicago on 25 September 1912. At the time of the marriage Christopher was 28 years old while Margaret was 26 years old:

Next I found Christopher J. Daly’s LDS death index, showing he died in Chicago on 6 August 1944. His birthdate is listed as 25 December 1882. His birthplace is Westmeath. The death index also notes that his father was Patrick Daly of Ireland, but does not give the name of his mother, who was also from Ireland.

The index also gives Chicago as Christopher’s residence at the time of death, and further states that his wife was Margaret.

He is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth, Cook County, Illinois: